Mason v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.3d 766 · 2008
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2025
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · State v. Bradley · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Lindh v. Murphy
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings unless the adjudication of the claim— (1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e REVERSE the judgment of the district court, GRANT Mason a conditional writ of habeas corpus that will result in the vacation of his death sentence unless the state of Ohio commences a new penalty-phase trial against him within 180 days from the date that the judgment in this matter becomes final, and REMAND the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mason v. Mitchell · State v. Mason“Mason’s father ran a prostitution ring for three years, that he operated a home-based drug business with ten employees selling drugs for him, that both of Mason’s parents were daily drug users as well as traffickers, that Mason’s mother shot his father because of his involvement with prostitution, and that Mason’s parents regularly abused Mason and isolated all of their children from anyone not associated with the parents’ drug dealing activities.... Further, the evidence demonstrated that Mason had experimented with drugs as an eight-year-old, that Mason’s father took him along on trips to purchase and sell drugs while Mason was in the sixth and seventh grades, and that Mason had a borderline personality disorder largely as a result of his dysfunctional home environment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goodwin v. Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.